Casati, Paolo, De igne dissertationes physicae, 1686

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            remota ſunt à Sinenſium & </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s16134" xml:space="preserve">Americanorum intelligentiâ: </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s16135" xml:space="preserve">quos
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            tamen utique reprehenderemus, ſi noſtra illi quaſi fabulas reii-
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            cerent. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s16136" xml:space="preserve">Imò hæc eſt non contemnenda probabilitatis nota, ſi
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            nihil de noſtris opinionibus cogitantes hiſtoriarum ſcriptores ea
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            referant, quæ noſtris hypotheſibus favent. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s16137" xml:space="preserve">Quapropter non
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            mediocriter delectatus ſum his, quæ ex Atlante Sinico nuper
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            attuliſtis; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s16138" xml:space="preserve">innoteſcit enim, quàm faciiè idonea gignendis ful-
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            minibus materia à tellure ſubminiſtretur; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s16139" xml:space="preserve">quamquam nec ubi-
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            que, nec ſemper, eadem fiat halituum complexio, quæ aut in
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            ſulmen accendatur, aut eâdem efficacitate polleat adversùs cor-
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            pora, quæ feriuntur. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s16140" xml:space="preserve">Aliquando enim homines è Cœlo tacti
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            exanimantur corpore integro manente, nullóque apparente
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            percuſſionis veſtigio; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s16141" xml:space="preserve">quia venenatus halitus vel ſubito illapſu
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            cor pervadit, vel ſpiritus animales in cerebro extinguit, vel ſan-
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            guinem in venis omnibus atque arteriis coagulat. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s16142" xml:space="preserve">Aliquando
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            verò manet integra corporis figura quaſi hominis dormientis,
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            ſed ſi quis tangit, illicò totum abit in cineres, perinde ferè ac
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            igniti carbones ſenſim tabeſcentes relinquunt cinerem aliqua-
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            tenus juxta priſtinam ſpeciem conformatum, qui tamen vel
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            levi tactu diſſolvitur. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s16143" xml:space="preserve">Verùm palàm fatendum eſt hæc in Na-
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            turæ theſauris ita latere, ut nemo cordatus audeat confidenter
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            in medium proferre hanc vel illam expirationum complexio-
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            nem, quam his vel illis effectibus reſpondere aſſeveret.</s>
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s16145" xml:space="preserve">Grad. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s16146" xml:space="preserve">Ita planè: </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s16147" xml:space="preserve">atque id tentantes ſe inani prorſus labore
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            ipſi conficiunt: </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s16148" xml:space="preserve">ideò nos ſatis habuimus fulminum materiam
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            revocare ad genus, & </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s16149" xml:space="preserve">ad naturam univerſam ſulphuris ac Salis,
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            quin horum partes ſubjectas temerè attingeremus, quippe quæ
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            noſtræ cognitioni ſe ſubducunt ſuâ varietate, atque earum
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            efficacitas oritur ex ipsâ plurium complexione, & </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s16150" xml:space="preserve">quidem pro
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            ratâ ſingularum portione, quam nullâ ratione veſtigare aut
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            deprehendere poſſumus. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s16151" xml:space="preserve">Hinc fieri poteſt, ut excuſſum ex nube
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            fulmen in terram non perveniat, diſſipatis nimirum in aëre
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            particulis illud componentibus; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s16152" xml:space="preserve">maximè ſi in exploſione adeò
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            obliquam directionem accipiat, ut in telluris ſuperficiem non
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            incurrat, ſed longiſſimo tramite per Atmoſphœram progredia-
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            tur. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s16153" xml:space="preserve">Hujuſmodi ſunt fulmina, quæ innoxia prætervolarent,
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            niſi nimis ſublime caput efferentes excelſi montes aliquando ſe
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            opponerent, ita ut factum ſit jam tritum ſermone proverbium,
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            Feriunt altos fulmina montes: </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s16154" xml:space="preserve">quibus ſaxea durities non ſatis
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            eſt ad excludendos fervidiſſimos halitus, qui admiſſi rupem,
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            diſiiciant. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s16155" xml:space="preserve">Vidi ipſe paratum arte gummi, quod </s>
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